78 c . f f ' c J \.t?r'! ., -' .-.. . . l. '-, :" ,, ;i )3\ , - 4 ,:", , \ " f' J! -, ' ,.:- Mr. Ernest Boyd makes some comments on . . t . THE MAN OF DESTINY by Emil Ludwig Translated by Eden and Cedar Pau "One of the finest modern biogrdphies" "We have biography of the New Year. It been shown has every prospect of being first Napoleon in when this year ends. all sprts of at- titudes - he- I 'The "Wtt unu,sual roic, rnelodra- c. cunntng the matic, ignominious. But some- unnr.ng publishers have how I find bere for the first Publishers" appealed to time an açCQunt of him in all his cu pidi ty by phases, from which he emerges -producing enormous, hand- as something great, human, and some tome for about one..third explicable: that is tq say, the of what its dimensions and the real man of des.tiny. The book present high cost of reading is packed with knowledge, would l'ead one to exp'ect." humor and vitality; it is the first Ernest Boyd, -The New Yorker (Written when the price was still $5) NoWT W"e low-er the price FroIn $5 to $3 HE announcement of the lowering of this already low price .1. from ñve dollars to three dollars may seem Machia'Vellian to Mr. Boyd. But the answer is very simple. Assuming a larJ1.e se.le with its consequent economies of production, we made the price $5.00. Very large printings have made it possible to lower the price to $3.00, and to announce the imminence of a best seller that digniñes the term. On sale at all bookstores. Octa )o, 732 pages. 21 fulL page plates. $3.00 ONI &. LIVERIGHT. N. Y. (f) GOOD "BOOKS ce -------- -- I 1W st 19 tb St.-a steÞ ITem 5 l/e , , Wl> re smart N(t?(.(.I V r/(ers l"oJ}'. t/Jeir / 001\ llvtRt(,t)T ft1ûp I __I or( :OOKrHELVES-BUILTf Costs less than bookcases .. . I r, Requires less room \-"--, 1 Humanizes your home .... It's Being Done! .... Write or phone for details THE BOOKSHELVERS 517-A East 139th StuN.Y. Mott Haven 5680 .;- .... , THE NEW YORKER of motherhood to be painted by a Victorian artist. T HE students at University Col- lege, London, recently held an auction sale for charity, and included among their "lots" a number of books autographed by their respective au- th ors. And here is the scale 0 f values as disclosed by the auction: Rudyard Kipling realized six dollars; G. M. Trevelyan a trifle less; Sir Oliver Lodge five dollars; Sean O'Casey a little over three dollars; Ramsay Mac- Donald three dollars; Gilbert Frankau a dollar, and William Le Queux s:xty cents. I cannot ascertain whether the work of Mr. Mencken was offered, or whether, after his experience with Mr. Le Queux's book, the auctioneer gave up the ghost before he arrived at the works of the truly great. -C. B. T. LONDON,]AN. 19, 1927. . MONODI 5 OF MA50NR. Y THE PULITZER BUILDING A very bald and antiquated gaffer, With shoulders squeezed together, has for half a Century watched the upstarts come and go, Perpetual godfathers to the Row. THE Crry HALL She is a dowdy dowager Whom nothing in the world could stir, Who issues legal hieroglyphs, And gathers in her skirts, and sniffs. -A. K. L. . IF I WE.R.E. KIN G I'd shun these highfalutin distance Calls to London with insistence. Or if compulsion prompted me To wing across the restless sea An urgent message, !' d begin it: "The rate is twenty-five a minute." -P. C. . For Sale-Or trade, cheap this week: A good young cow giving milk, furniture for two rooms, Ford roadster and a ladies size Waltham watch.-A dv. in Lyons (Kans.) News. What won't she give when she's a Ii ttle older?